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nEnou Agricultural Assodation Record 



I 

 June 1, 1923 



IllinoU Agridiharal Association 



RECORD 



Published twice a month by the 

 iliinots Agricultural Association, 

 608 South l>earborn Street. Chicaffo. 

 Iltinois. Edited by News Publicity 

 Pepartment, I*. J. Montross. Director. 



; Entry as second clasa matter Oct. 

 110. I92i; at the post office at Chi- 

 It-ago. Illinois, under the act of 

 ,Marrh 3. 1879. Acceptance for majl- 

 i ins at special rates af postai^e pro- 

 I Virted fpr in Sect ion 1 1 03. Arl of 

 ';October-3. 1917. authorized Oct- 81 



'19**: ?- f 



.'he individual membership fcf of 

 he Illinois AKriciiltural Assofia- 

 lon is five dollars a year. This 

 'ee includes paynrest of ten cents 

 'or subscription to the Illinois Ag- 

 Icultura! AsRO'-iatioii Tlecord 



I OFFICERS 



President. S. H. Thompson. Quincy. 

 Tice-President. A. O. Bckert. Ueltt- 

 /ille. 



'ecretary. Oeo- A. Fox. Sycamore. ' 

 'reasurer. R. A. Cowles. Bloomingr- 

 ton- 



EXF(\'TIVF rOMMITTFK 

 By t'onRressional I>Utricts 



tilth — Henry M'^Oouffh. Maple Park- 

 "th — <;. K. TiiJIock. Rockford. 

 _th — '.'. K Itarnborouph. I'olo. 

 4th — W. ir. Moody. Port tJyron- 

 6tii — H. E. ftoembel, Hoopole. 

 [kth^r;, E. lt«dcr. Mendota. 

 [hth — p. T>.' Barton, rornell. 

 [tath — C. It- Kinli-y. Hoopeston.., 

 IjPth — P. J T'"lt'rman. Sadorus. 

 aoth — Earl J. Smi<n. Detroit, 

 pst— E. L. Cofhin. Ca)*""^'''l«- 

 nd — Stanley Tastle, Ulton- ■ 

 rd — ("arlton Trimblei Trimble. 

 !J4th^ — Curt Anderson. Xenla. 

 th — Vernon Lessley. Sparta. 



Pirectors of Deimrtnients, 

 I. A. A. Office 



Qeneral Office and Assistant to Sec- 



itary. J. P. Harper; Fi»*Id Organia- 



ilion, J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub- 



Tclty. e. E. Metzger; News Public- 



iy. L.. J. Montrosa; Transportation. 



'4. J. Quasey; Statistics. J. C. Wat- 



ipn; Flinance. R, A. Towles; Fruit 



-.iikid Vegetable Marketing. C E. 



^SurstiiLive Stock Marketing. C A. 



-atVwart; Dairy Marketing. A. D. 



Tiynch; Phosphate I..imePtone. J. R. 



Bent . Legal. Newton Jenkins. 



SIDNEY ANDERSON 

 SUTED TO SPEAK 

 AT I. A. A. PICNIC 



"(Oontinued from page 1) 



in farm transportation, Congress- 

 man Anderson has the respect and 

 admiration of farmers all over the 

 ciluntry. He is "farmer-minded," 

 represents an JKricultural consti- 

 tileacy and has!an enviable repu- 

 Ukion as a speaker. He will bring 

 al jreal ipessage to the picnic. 

 {Meetings of several of the com- 



ttees which are planning for the 

 pitnic have been held during the 

 )ut two w«eks:'; 



Arrangements have been made 



devote a part of the program, 

 possibly on the evening preceding 

 tie picnic, to the rural ministers 

 oft Illinois. ' A number of pastors 

 have already made arrangements 

 toj come. 



The grounds committee has 

 stirted its work at Crystal Lalie 

 Park. ■ Arrangements are beiiJfe 

 mftde^ for the sparking of cars and 

 fok* the horseshoe pitching courts. 



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Cos 



tie Is New 

 Member of I. A. A. 

 jl Executive Body 



I 'Stanley Castle, Alton, president 

 of the Madison County Farm Bu 

 TCau, is the new member of the 

 I, I A. A. ExiiHjutive Committee 

 fMm the 22nd District to succeed 



e<f Baumberger^ Reno, who re- 



ned in April. 



Castle was elected to the 



bition by the voting delegates 

 ol the district at a meeting at 

 fiist St. Louis in .May. He is 

 a prominent grain farmer of 

 Mfldison county and an outstand- 

 ing worker for the farm bureau. 

 Uaaer bis leadership the Madi- 

 soU County Farm Bureau has de- 

 veloped into one of the strongest 

 anit most successful county or- 

 gattixations in Illinois. 



/. A. A. Has Department To Solve 



Producers' Live Stock Problems 



In keeping with its aim to furnish service to farm bureau 

 members in all important phases of Illinois asriculturft, the Illi- 

 nois Agricviltural Association has from the start maintained a 

 Live. Stock Marketing Department. C'ontinuinfr the policy laid 

 down durin? tlie first two years of the operation of this depart- 

 ment, the work hiis been divided into three general lines of ac- 

 tivities: first, live stock marketing; second, the wool pool; third, 

 general activities. 



Hy far the most important work is In the division of live stock 

 marketing. Here two aKencles enter largely into co-operative mar- 

 keting. First, there are the 580 communities of the State which are 

 served by local co-operative shipping associations. Second, the tour 

 terminal markets in which Illinois shippers are most interested, Chi- 

 cago.. East St, I.ouis. Indianapolis and Peoria, are now served by suc- 

 ressfol producer-owned and operated selling agencies functioning 

 under a national plan. 



The relationship of the .1. A. 

 A. Live Stock Marketing Depart- 

 ment to these marketing agencies, 

 both local and at the terminal 

 markets, is largely of an advis- 

 ory or consulting nature and is 

 maintained by bi-monthly letters 

 sent to the boards of directors 

 and managers of all the associa- 

 tions and also by means of meet- 

 ings attended directly by C. A. 

 Stewart, Director of the Depart- 

 ment. 



All possible information is 

 given both by mail and at meet- 

 ings and suggestions are made. 

 Big Baslnes.« Done 



Many of the larger local ship- 

 ping associations of Illinois do 

 a yearly business of from $100,- 

 000 to 1150,000. while some of 

 the largest have handled busi- 

 ness "to the extent of $500,000 

 annually. The four terminal 

 markets in which Illinois is in- 

 terested receive up to forty per 

 cent of their total receipts from 

 shipping associations, fully half 

 of which comes from this state. 



In most communities served by 

 shipping associations, the asso- 

 ciation ranks in amount of busi- 

 ness done as the most, important 

 busipess in the community. The 

 I. A. A. Live Stock Marketing 

 Department, therefore, has al- 

 ways advocated the use of the 

 most effective business principles 

 and methods. The Department 

 recommends that associations in- 

 corporate and assist them in that 

 respfct, as incorporation gives a 

 standing as an organization and 

 limits liability of members. 



The Department also recom- 

 mends bonding of managers and 

 employes handling funds and ad- 

 vocate* the best methods of ac- 

 counting. T 

 Reports Asked 



Recognizing that one of the 

 tremendous problems affecting 

 the prosperity of the Illinois live 

 stock Industry is the inability to 

 stabilize receipts at the terminal 

 iqarkets, the Department has ask- 

 ed reports from local shipping as 

 sociations at frequent intervals, in 

 order to work toward a program 

 of preventing fluctuation in re- 

 ceipts and the accompanying fluc- 

 tuation in prices. 



In co-operation with the Ex- 

 tension Service of the College of 

 Agriculture, schools of instruc- 

 tion for associations are held 

 from time to time in different 

 parts of the State. At these 

 schools the most eflicient methods 

 of handling live stock, methods 

 of organization and other in- 

 formation df benefit is given out. 



While the Live Stock Market- 

 ing Department and the I. A. A. 

 in general took a prominent part 

 in the setting up and financing of 

 the four live stock commission 

 firms in which Illinois farmers 

 are mdst interested, no ofllcial 

 coniiectioa is any longer main- 



tained with them. They are dis- 

 tinct organizations. -Mthough they 

 •do not place a premium upon 

 Farm Bureau membership, it is 

 a recognized fact that most of 

 their support conies from farm 

 bureau members and shipping as- 

 sociations affiliated with the 

 movement, and it is to the ad- 

 vantage of both that close rela- 

 tions be maintained. The De- 

 partment, therefore, keeps as 

 closely In touch with the four 

 selling agencies as possible. 



Complaints Filed 



The Department, however, is 

 always representing foremost the 

 producers and local shipping as 

 sociations. In all questions which 

 arise they may depend upon the 

 Department for all possible as 

 sistance. This is especially true 

 in complaints filed against old 

 line companies or the Producers. 

 Many times, because of the inti- 

 mate knowledge which the De 

 partment has of terminal mar- 

 keting methods, satisfactory ex- 

 planation can be offered without 

 further investigation. At other 

 times such complaints have led 

 to an investigation which result- 

 ed beneficially to all parties con- 

 ceri^ed. 



The Wool Pool 



The I. A. A. wool pool, han- 

 dled by the Live Stock Market- 

 ing Department, has been in op- 

 eration five years and has gone 

 through many of the vicissitudes 

 which accompany the develop- 

 ment of any new enterprise. 

 From this experience an effective 

 plan has been devised. A con- 

 tract is now entered into with 

 the National Wool Warehouse 

 and Storage Company, of Chicago, 

 authorizing them to act as de- 

 pository and selling agency for 

 Illinois wools. Illinois producers 

 are thus able to have the advan- 

 tages of marketing their wool 

 >wlth the 7,000,000 to 27,000,000 

 pounds marketed yearly from 

 other states. This large scate 

 handling has meant a distinct 

 saving. 



Early each year the Depart- 

 ment enters Into contracts for 

 sacks and twine so as not to lose 

 on a possible rise in the market. 



Watch Grading 



A representative of the Depart- 

 ment watches the grading of the 

 wool at the warehouse as closely 

 as possible, even though there is 

 no doubt of the reliability of the 

 gliders. 1*he Department is con- 

 sulted before any sale of wool is 

 made and in cases there is any 

 doubt as to what decision should 

 be made the owners of the wool 

 are consulted. 



Despite the fact that the pool 

 has been operating in the fluctua-' 

 tions of the post-war fluctuation 

 period, questionnaires from the 

 counties have shown that every 

 year pool prices have generally 

 been higher than local prices. 



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C A. STEWART 



A rapid advance in wool dur- 

 ing the fall of 1921, after the 

 pool had been sold, resiilted in 

 some dissatisfaction. This ad- 

 vance, however, was n"t Justified 

 by prevailing conditions and 

 there was no way to forecast it. 

 Sale of Blankets 



In 1920 and 1921 the Depart- 

 ment, in order to find an outlet 

 for wool at a time of poor de- 

 mand, had thousands of pounds 

 made into blankets to be sold to 

 members at cost. This realized 

 growers a higher price than they 

 could otherwise have obtained at 

 the time and furnished blankets 

 at a figure comparable to city 

 wholesale prices, saving the buy- 

 er, too. Some of these blankets 

 are still on hand and are being 

 distributed by the Department. 

 General I»roJect.<> 



The general activities of the 

 Department include various mat- 

 ters in which producers over the 

 State are interested. Live stock 

 freight rates are handled by the 

 I. A. A.' Live Stock and Trans- 

 portation Departments, co-operat- 

 ing, -"^n active part has been 

 taken in an attempt to get a re- 

 duction on mixed shipment rates. 



The Department has filed an 

 application with the Tariff Com- 

 mission for the reduction of the 

 exorbitant tariff on Canadian cat- 

 tle. This move was prompted by 

 protests from Illinois feeders. 



The Department works with 

 counties which are handling hog 

 cholera serum and virus for mem- 

 bers, being represented on the 

 committee which recommended to 

 counties the' company best fitted 

 for handling the Illinois busi- 

 ness. A number of conferences 

 have been held with the State 

 Veterinarian on farmer vaccina- 

 tion. The Department is repre- 

 sented, with farm bureaus, the 

 University and the State Depart 

 ment of Agriculture on a com- 

 mittee working out a plan for a 

 better distribution in Illinois of 

 serum and virus, especially as to 

 distribution frcm Jobbing houses. 



Work is being done on the 

 subject of direct contact between 

 the cattle feeder and Western 

 producers, as the present method 

 of dlstributldg feeders is becom- 

 ing more and more unsatisfac- 

 tory and losses among cattle pur- 

 chased at the terminal are in- 

 creasing yearly. The attention of 

 the U. S. Department of Agrl 

 culture has been called to these 

 problems. 



"We are anxiously looking (or 



ST. LOUIS DISTRICT 



MARKETING PLAN IS 



PROPOSED^AT MEET 



E. B. Heaton, of A. F. B. F., 



Heads Committee For 



Dairy Co-operation 



At a meeting of the milk pro- 

 ducers" advisory committee of 

 the St. Louis district, held at 

 East St. Louis, E. B. Heaton, 

 Director of Dairj- Marketing for 

 the A. P. B. P., was elected 

 chairman and A. E. Richardson 

 secretary. The other members 

 of the committee are : 



Geo. A. Fox, Secretary of ' the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association; 

 John L. Boland, President ot the 

 Missouri Farm Bureau Federation; 

 Pearlie Haycraft, President ot the 

 Southern Illinois Milk Producers" 

 Association. 



Mr. Heaton presented the fol- 

 lowing plan as the basis for re- 

 organizing the district for the co- 

 operative distrlbtttton of dairy 

 products: 



fhi' ,?"!""."'« property standing of 

 MMi, '«""i'° ", Missouri Co-operative 

 .Milk Marketing Company be main- 



i?A?r',''*', ""■ '*'"« "' preferred 

 3lock to farmer creditors 



:;. That all directors of the mar- 

 keting company submit their reslg- 

 "", "'„ '" ""= committee. 



... "''a' ^h* country receivinB 

 station property of thj marketinf - 

 company be sold to local co-opera- 

 tive associations. 



4. That a Held organizer be em- 

 fo 'l^,^!,'"',,"'^ marketing company 

 to look after the prop-rty of the 

 company and to assist in the for! 

 miition of local associa^tlons, etc. 

 ateiv ..11." i'"?^''.™'^"* •'e Immedl- 

 fhe form.,',"' 'r'""S^ forward to 

 nront T .'T °', ^ non-stock, non- 



£t.°''Lo'u?»'^?,'is?rt?-^."7ha't"t'h11 



(a) The formation of local co- 

 eperatlve non-stock and non-prSflt 



fn'?hl*"l'^",' ,\' t" Shipping Po"?8 

 In the district having a minimum 



/bi'-rl ."'*';'' pounds of mik 

 Shall bu5 or K°.f,*' associations 

 snail buy or build or purchase a 



LT.e" S^e*".? property o? suf^i'ent 

 . '". receive snd In emercencie!. 



?^ 'Thi"'!" ".' """■• ^^^b7rl 

 HI The local association shall 



iiri.v.iiz^t ""^"^ *° «--'■<> 



ha'.^' .p*'.o!.°a?Urc'^J?i'-'- „«S«'l 

 hers sign an enforceable conh-art. 

 J-ong the provisions In whlch*8hali 



<1) A provision that when 7^; 

 per cent of the total milk nro 

 duced In the St. Louis district °s 

 wi'^h^'Id^nH '," ""r'"^"- assocra^onS 

 ;. e mMw ^"'. ■'"""■a-;"' the title to 

 1 Ti "5 '^ '° pass and thfe milk 

 .'cl vered to the central non-stock 

 and non-t.roflt association to be 

 created. 



(2) A provision also that when 

 the central association begins to 

 function that the local association 

 must lease the local building and 

 real estate to the central associa- 

 tion, the central association to own 

 all equipment. 



(31 A provision that a commit- 

 tee composed of all the farm ad- 

 visers and county agents ot the «t. 

 Louis district. Bhall determine when 

 75 per cent of the total milk In the 

 district i« represented by contracts 

 with local associations. ^ 



(4) Until a. new marketing asso- 

 ciation la criated the Southern Illi- 

 nois Milk Producers Association 

 shall bargain Vith the dealers for 

 the sale of the milk in the district. 



fS) When the new marketing as- 

 sociation is created it shall tnter 

 into contract with the Illinois-Mis- 

 souri Co-operative Milk Marketing 

 Company for use of the property of 

 that company yith the understand- 

 ing th?t Its property may be ab- 

 sorbed by the new company or made 

 a subsidiary. 



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June 



suggestions wherein this Depart- 

 ment may be of benefit to the 

 producer," says one of the bulle- 

 tins from the I. A. A. Live Stock 

 Marketing Department. "If yon 

 have any problems, send them in. 

 If this Depai;tment cannot help 

 you solve them, it may be pos- 

 sible to place you In contact with 

 some agency which can be of as- 

 sistance. We want all the live 

 stock interests of the State to 

 realize and appreciate that this 

 Department has been created for 

 the sole purpose of assisting the 

 producer, particularly with h'" ' 

 marketing problems." 



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